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Darkly Divine Vegan Chocolate Fudge Cake

Ingredients

  • Cake
  • 240g self raising flour
  • 1 1/2tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 35g cocoa
  • 75g ground almonds
  • 240g granulated sugar
  • 150g hard 100% vegetable margarine
  • 260ml soya milk
  • 150ml natural soya yoghurt
  • 1 - 2tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 - 2drops almond extract (optional)
  • Filling
  • 50g soya margarine
  • 3tbs water
  • 200g icing sugar
  • 50g cocoa
  • 1tsp vanilla extract
  • To decorate
  • Icing sugar
  • 200g 70% cocoa plain chocolate, melted

Method

  • Preheat oven to 190C / 375F
  • Grease and base line 2 x spring form 20cm cake tins, or 2 x 20cm deep sandwich tins.
  • To make the cake:
  • Sift flour, bicarbonate of soda and cocoa together into a large bowl.
  • Mix the ground almonds and sugar with the flour and cocoa mixture until evenly blended.
  • Melt the margarine. Cool slightly. Put soya milk, soya yoghurt and melted margarine in a blender and blend until smooth and well combined.
  • Mix the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients until incorporated, but do not beat.
  • Divide between the two tins, level the tops and bake in the preheated oven for about 25 minutes until firm to the touch. Do not worry if the top cracks – this is quite normal. Cool in the tins – overnight is fine.
  • To make the filling:
  • melt the water and margarine together until the margarine is just melted. Do not let boil or get too hot. Let cool slightly.
  • Sift the icing sugar with the cocoa into a large bowl. Add the vanilla extract to the margarine and water then tip into the bowl with the icing sugar and cocoa. Mix well – the mixture will end up quite stiff. If it is runny, the margarine mixture was too hot – just leave it to cool down and set for a while.
  • Turn the cakes out of the tins. To make one large cake divide, and carefully spread the filling over the two halves and sandwich together.
  • Sprinkle with icing sugar and decorate with drizzles of melted chocolate

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